Barry Gibb Keeps the Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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Music Interviews, Film Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Tv & Film

4.3 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Bee Gees were Barry Gibb and his younger twin brothers, Robin and Maurice. From the time they started playing together as children, they dreamed of stardom, and they certainly succeeded. The Bee Gees became among the top-selling music groups of all time. The distinctive “blood harmony” of the brothers' voices set the dance floor on fire and their prodigious talent as songwriters extended their career long past disco’s days. Now in his mid-70s, Barry is the sole survivor of the group. Barry talks to Alec about his songwriting, fame, and family. Robin died in 2012 and Maurice in 2003. Barry’s keeping the Bee Gees’ music alive and still making music. HBO recently released a documentary about the group, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? and Barry put out an album featuring Nashville greats singing Bee Gees songs called Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook (Vol. 1).

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0:00.0	I'm Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from I Heart Radio.
0:14.9	The recently released HBO documentary How Can You Men To Broken Heart mentions the term
0:20.6	blood harmony or bio-harmony that unique blend when siblings sing together.
0:27.4	Like The Beach Boys, The Jackson Five, The Everly Brothers, and The Bee Gees.
0:44.4	My guest today is Barry Gibb.
0:47.4	With his younger twin brothers Robin and Morris, The Bee Gees conquered the world with their
0:53.5	ethereal harmonies.
0:55.7	Today Barry misses his brothers.
0:58.7	Morris died in 2003, Robin in 2012.
1:02.7	I wanted to know if he'd ever considered what kind of solo career he might have had.
1:08.5	Well I don't know, I know what I wanted.
1:10.9	I wanted to be a pop star or a rock star.
1:13.2	Whatever it is that goes through our heads at that point.
1:16.3	At some point in your life you wanted to be an actor, you know.
1:19.7	All I know is that the moment that my brothers began to do individual things and I didn't
1:24.2	know about them, then I thought, well it's okay I can do individual things too.
1:29.0	But I never did that before they did.
1:32.8	Once that began I thought, oh wow, they've gone and done this on their own.
1:37.2	Morris has done this or Rob has done this.
1:39.4	That's pretty good.
1:40.4	Wow, I didn't know that they did that without even a question.
1:44.7	So I figured, well it was okay.
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